Christine Lee

Expertise: Marijuana and young adults, high-risk behavior, alcohol, prevention, intervention

Christine Lee researches what motivates young adults to engage in high-risk behaviors such as alcohol and marijuana use, how life events and circumstances influence variation in risk of use and consequences over time, whether and how individuals learn from their prior experiences to avoid future harmful consequences, how developmental transitions and timing of events influence use and intervention and the development of effective prevention and intervention efforts. She is also associate director at the Center for the Study of Health and Risk Behaviors.